page_title: Lakes Plains
hierarchical_section_title: Lakes Plains
caption_attribution_description: Topographic locator map for Papua (Indonesian part of New Guinea). Created with GMT from SRTM data. Left: 130, Bottom: -10, Right: 142, Top: 2
context_page_description: The Mamberamo Lakes Plains are a large, flat low-lying area of the Mamberamo River basin in the Indonesian province Papua on the island of New Guinea. The plain is defined by the meandering tributaries of the Mamberamo, and includes hundreds of oxbow lakes. It is 300 kilometers long and about 50 kilometers wide, and is entirely enclosed by mountains apart from the outlet of the Mameramo.
  It is inhabited in the west, but the eastern lobe is largely uninhabited.
context_section_description: The Mamberamo Lakes Plains (Dutch Meervlakte, Malay dataran danau-danau) are a large, flat low-lying area of the Mamberamo River basin in the Indonesian province Papua on the island of New Guinea. The plain is defined by the meandering tributaries of the Mamberamo, and includes hundreds of oxbow lakes. It is 300 kilometers long and about 50 kilometers wide, and is entirely enclosed by mountains apart from the outlet of the Mameramo.
  It is inhabited in the west, but the eastern lobe is largely uninhabited.
caption: Topography of Western New Guinea
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